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there are many ways to get real about your age. one way is to check on your birthday and find that in all questionaires you are ticking the 48-to-64 group. one way is simply to look into the mirrow on a normal day. but the thing that really drives down the message is when you look at the kids of your friends and find that they are more or less ready to conquer the world. young, bright and adventurous they do all the things at the age of sixteen that you thought you might do later in life, like after retirement...

well, let's not get too upset about this. andy and carmo's beautiful daughter joana (bottom right) and her school mates are just preparing for a fantastic trip to shanghai's expo in a sort of young diplomat's way and will promote their town and meet pupils from a chinese high school to exchange ideas. fluent in english, mandarin and hopefuly german this will truly be an intercultural experience. like we did in the seventies, just that for us it was the village over...

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